The IPlegalED course has been designed and written by expert practitioners to be the very best course possible – the gold standard of patent paralegal education. Upon completing the course and passing the final exam, you will be awarded a certificate showing that you successfully completed the IPlegalED Patent Paralegal Certificate Course and passed the final exam.
The IPlegalED course is not designed to provide general, non-specific paralegal training, and does not provide a general paralegal certificate. Many courses exist to provide such general paralegal training and are often offered at community colleges, but these general courses do not teach patent paralegal skills and are of little value to a law firm or corporation looking for a professional patent paralegal. The IPlegalED.com course is a specialized, professional course designed to teach patent administration only. It should be noted that ABA only approves courses that include General Education, which is defined by the ABA as, “an academic college-level course designed to give students a broadly based liberal arts education,” so the IPlegalED course cannot be approved by the ABA under the current rules, which are not designed for approval of such specialized professional courses. Whether or not you are technically entitled to call yourself a paralegal in any given state varies from state to state. In many states the term has no fixed meaning and is simply a commonly used work descriptor meaning someone who supports an attorney. Some companies use the word, “Specialist” as a title for the same job. In some states, the word paralegal has been codified in the state’s legal code (e.g. in California see the business and professions code section 6450-6456 which requires a certain number of years of experience and/or academic qualifications).
We ship certificates destined to U.S. addresses by U.S. Postal Service First-Class Mail. If we mail your certificate and it is returned as undeliverable, or if you would like us to reissue your certificate, the fee to mail it again will be $35.
For foreign addresses we ship via U.S. Postal Service First-Class Mail. If lost or undeliverable, as a courtesy, we will ship tracked Priority Mail International one time for free. Any additional services (such as FedEx), mailings, or certificates will be at the student’s expense. Please note: We are not the Post Office and we do not control the mail. The U.S. Postal Service offers tracking to foreign countries when using Priority Mail International, however, once it leaves the US, the local postal service of the destination country takes over.
If a certificate is returned as undeliverable or sent to a student twice, a copy of letterhead with address from a business or other proof of address (a copy of the mailing address from a utility bill) must be supplied and the certificate will be sent to that address. If you have any questions, please contact us at questions (at) iplegaled.com.